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Melissa and Joey on MELISSA & JOEY!

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Last summer saw the debut of ABC Family’s hilarious new series MELISSA & JOEY starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence. As a family show, the series focuses on the challenges of a fun-loving politician who, after taking in her teenage niece and nephew after their parents are caught up in an criminal scandal, hires a manny to help out — a former business executive and money manager who just happened to be one of the victims of a ponzi-scheme scandal. The daily travails and conflicts of this make-shift family leads to much comedic tension and provides a light family drama as they all attempt to navigate the tenuous familial life created out of the most absurd circumstances.

As fans of MY FAKE FIANCÉ already know, the chemistry between Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence is dazzling. Whenever they are on screen together, they are riveting. While the show does not overtly focus on the will-they-or-wont-they kind of romantic entanglement, seeing Melissa and Joey’s characters dance around each other as they simultaneously strive to provide parental guidance to Ryder and Lennox — it is clear that they are not only role models for them, but they are also the bookends for their lives in this mixed-up world of comedy laced with a golden heart.

MELISSA & JOEY is about family in the most unusual of circumstances and how love grows in the midst of comedic, and yet perhaps predestined relationships. Family is not something that you have to be born into — it is the people that love you and care for you no matter what the circumstances. [Read more…]

TV Ratings: Tuesday June 28, 2011 (NBC’s Got Viewers!)

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Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions
TimeNetworkShowRating18-49
8PMNBCAmerica’s Got Talent12.043.2/10
CBSNCIS (R)8.211.2/4
ABCWipeout5.521.86
FOXMasterChef4.221.7/6
CWOne Tree Hill (R)660,0000.2/1
9PMNBCThe Voice (R)12.904.3/12
CBSNCIS: Los Angeles (R)7.951.3/4
ABC101 Ways to Leave a Game Show5.271.8/5
FOXRaising Hope (R)2.150.8/2
CWHellcats (R)630,0000.2/1
10PMNBCThe Voice12.194.4/12
CBSThe Good Wife (R)4.820.8/2
ABCCombat Hospital4.611.1/3

Mark Feuerstein Reveals What’s Ahead on Season 3 of ROYAL PAINS

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During a recent conference call, Mark Feuerstein provided some key insight into his character Hank Lawson and what lies ahead in the second season of ROYAL PAINS.
 
Where do we next find Hank after the nine months that have passed since the last time we saw him?
Mark:  It has been a long winter for Hank Lawson. The first time you will glimpse him having lived through the winter and spring, he will have a full beard on his face – a mane as I like to call it, across his entire face. He’s taking care of patients. He lives a full winter and spring running HankMed by himself — or with the help of Divya’s presence and responsibilities never made fully clear.  Over the course of the winter, she’s been through stuff with Raj and the cancellation of the wedding. But Evan’s been gallivanting all of Europe with Paige. So it’s been a long winter, but he’s made it through and he will shave his beard for all of our viewers who might not like to see that much hair on his face.  And then there’s a lot of new wrinkles and storylines to ensure from having you know, been away from HankMed for nine months. [Read more…]

Callie Thorne Delivers the Inside Line on USA Network’s New Series NECESSARY ROUGHNESS

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Taking a page out of the successful television playbook, NECESSARY ROUGHNESS introduces viewers to an exclusive world where the rich and powerful play and where they can stumble into some thorny predicaments if they do not keep their game face on and cannot keep their head in the game – whether the game is competitive sports, politics, the news room, on a race track or in a boardroom.   To help keep these power players in the game, they seek the aid of Dr. Dani Santino, a psychotherapist, deftly portrayed by Callie Thorne.  During a recent press call, Callie shared what makes Dr. Dani the best player in the game.
 
What was it about the premise of the show and your character that made you want to do it?
Callie:  I think initially the fact that it was a true story and that it was based on a real woman, a real extraordinary woman, is you know why. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the script and read it in the first place. Because, to me, that automatically means that a story’s going to be that much more rich and that much more layered — especially in the writing room.  It just means that everything’s going to be that much more true, that much more grounded — and I was right. I read the script, I flew through it, and it felt so honest and based out of a real kind of truth, that even when I got to meet her, it all sort of fell into place so perfectly. Because there’s a spirit about her that fills up the entire page.  Which then makes it that much easier to go ahead and get in front of the camera and try to tell her story. [Read more…]

Morning Static: HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, TORCHWOOD, TWO AND A HALF MEN & More!

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• Welcome to the Rock! LOST executive producer Jack Bender joins J.J. Abrams’ ALCATRAZ.
• Must Read TV: Why WEEDS, THE BIG C and GLEE are comedies, not dramedies.
• Canadian Comics FTW! Martin Short to replace Dave Foley as Marshall’s potential new boss on the new season of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.
• USA! USA! USA! UK TV fans will have to wait six days to watch TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY.
• Should TWO AND A HALF MEN kill of Charlie Sheen’s character? Discuss.

On TV Tonight: Tuesday June 28, 2011

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NET8PM8:30PM9PM9:30PM10PM10:30PM
ABCWipeout101 Ways to Leave a Game ShowCombat Hospital
CBSNCIS (R)NCIS: Los Angeles (R)The Good Wife (R)
CWOne Tree Hill (R)Hellcats (R)
FOXMasterChefRaising Hope (R)Raising Hope (R)
NBCAmerica’s Got Talent (R)The Voice
MISCPretty Little Liars (ABC Family)The Nine Lives of Chloe King (ABC Family)
White Collar (USA)		Covert Affairs (USA)

Time Jumps! Guest Stars! Road Trips! Executive Producers Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch Share Secrets from the Third Season of ROYAL PAINS

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As USA Network’s series ROYAL PAINS returns for its third season, we find out what is next for the Lawsons, Hank and Evan, and their father Eddie Lawson, last seen headed off to prison.  The show picks up nine months later to see the aftermath of so many momentous changes in their lives.  But as the Lawsons discover, no matter how many  surprises and curve balls that life throws at them, they are still bound by their enduring love and intertwined destinies.

What can you tell us about the one year time jump and how will this effect the various relationships on the show between the characters?
Andrew Lenchewski: Well, it’s not quite a year. I mean what we’re doing is the first two seasons were in one summer and now we’re jumping to the next summer. So we’re going about a little under a nine-month time jump from the end of Summer 1 of the Royal Pains life to the beginning of Summer 2.
Michael Rauch: That’s been one of the challenges and one of the fun parts for us —  how do you keep the characters in larger arcs going even though there’s been basically a bunch of seasons that we haven’t played and we haven’t seen and the audience hasn’t seen. It’s one of the reasons why we ended Season 2 the way we did with a lot of people going away so we could come back in Season 3 with getting into what happened while they were gone. A continuation of some storylines and some surprises that happened in the time we didn’t play. [Read more…]

TV Ratings: Monday June 27, 2011

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Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions
TimeNetworkShowRating18-49
8PMABCThe Bachelorette7.742.3/7
NBCAmerica’s Got Talent (R)5.801.4/5
CBSHow I Met Your Mother (R)3.071.2/4
FOXMasterChef (R)3.071.2/4
CW90210 (R)790,0000.3/1
8:30PMCBSHow I Met Your Mother (R)3.851.3/4
9PMABCThe Bachelerotte8.342.78
CBSTwo and a Half Men (R)6.021.5/4
FOXMasterChef5.022.0/6
NBCLaw & Order: SVU (R)4.841.0/3
CWGossip Girl (R)410,0000.2/1
10PMNBCLaw & Order: LA6.401.5/4
ABCExtreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition6.392.3/6
CBSHawaii Five-0 (R)5.841.2/3

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with COMBAT HOSPITAL Star Michelle Borth

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Not content to be FORGOTTEN following the unfortunate demise of the Christian Slater drama of the same name, actress Michelle Borth is back. As one of the stars of COMBAT HOSPITAL — ABC’s (Global TV in Canada) sizzling new summer series based on the real life-and-death experiences of the Canadians in charge of Kandahar Airfield Base’s Multinational Medical Unit from 2006-2009, Borth plays Major Rebecca Gordon, a top-of-her-game trauma surgeon whose personal life is anything but. So just how apprehensive was she about jumping back into series television following the disappointment that was THE FORGOTTEN, what attracted her to COMBAT HOSPITAL and is she at all worried about the polarizing nature of war in our entertainment landscape? We recently had the chance to visit the set of the Toronto-based series to find out just that. See for yourself after the jump. [Read more…]

iSpy: Behind-the-Scenes Photos From the Set of COVERT AFFAIRS

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As mentioned during last week’s article featuring interviews from the set of COVERT AFFAIRS, the entire experience was simply an extraordinary opportunity to peek behind the curtain of a show that takes viewers to the most exotic and exciting of locations each week. But as fun as it was to enter the fictional world of COVERT AFFAIRS, it was just as exciting to see where, not to mention how, they bring the show to life. Which is why we thought we’d share a handful of candid photos taken during the set visit, including great pictures of some behind-the-scenes action, photos with the cast and crew, and snap-shots of the sets that make up the remarkable world of COVERT AFFAIRS. See for yourself after the jump. [Read more…]

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